What I’ve got for you today is a bunch of covers some of you may recognize if you’ve been reading my blog for a while. All of them are “repeats”: covers I’ve featured before along with new exact matches...
First up, is a threesome of the same dandelion puff (with one reversed image): Always Too Soon: Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents by Allison Gilbert with Christina Baker Kline (Seal Press, 2006), The Wishing Year: A House, a Man, My Soul by Noelle Oxenhandler (Random House, 2008) and Dandelion directed by Mark Milgard (movie poster, 2004).
The Wishing Year was featured previously in Similar Covers: Dandelion Puffs.
Next, the same poor butterfly trapped in a jar three times: Predators, Preys, and Other Kinfolk: Growing Up in Polygamy by Dorothy Allred Solomon (WW Norton, 2003), Bone Machine by Martyn Waites (Pegasus, 2007) and Life Sentences by Laura Lippman (Harper Collins, 2009).
Both Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk and Life Sentences were featured previously in Similar Covers: More Butterflies.
Next, a threesome of the same dancing couple: Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons (Harper Collins, Jun 2005), Als die richtige Zeit verschwand by Günter Ohnemus (Droemer Knaur, Sep 2005) and Queen of the Underworld by Gail Godwin (Random House, 2006).
The two English books were featured previously in Similar Covers: Two Couples.
Finally, a threesome that is actually part of a larger set (see link below): The Professors’ Wives’ Club by Joanne Rendell (Penguin, 2008), Choral Society by Prue Leith (Quercus, 2009) and the ironically titled More Like Her by Liza Palmer (Harper Collins, 2012). Thank you to Gwendolyn (A Sea of Books) for sending me the third cover (and, if you haven’t already, check out her Ditto Doubles!).
The first two books were featured previously in Similar Covers: Women’s Legs (along with two other covers that use a very similar image).
The covers in each of these sets are so similar, but the threesome that dismays me the most is the last, since not only do they look almost the same, but they’re all contemporary women’s fiction!
I liked the cover of More Like Her but now I'm bummed that it's been used before! I always feel bad for the author when they don't get an original cover.
ReplyDeleteI love dandelions! Of the three you shared, I like the middle one best.
ReplyDeleteThe dandelion cover just works for me … I could see using that image again and again!
ReplyDeleteI will never get over being amazed at how many duplicate covers there are out there!
ReplyDeleteI keep asking myself, "what are they thinking", when they use the exact same image. The same theme I can understand but you have found so many of the same images that I guess it's being done on purpose. I would think the publisher would want originality, but I guess not.
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